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August 28, 2009

Scientist Receives Threats for Speaking Out About Monsanto?! [via OCA]

Did a Scientist Warning of Health Hazards of Monsanto’s Herbicide Receive Threats?

“I expected a reaction, but not such a violent one.”

by Sarah Miller

In April, 2009, Andrés Carrasco, an Argentinian embryologist, gave an interview to the leading Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12, in which he described the alarming results of a research project he is leading into the impact of the herbicide glyphosate on the foetuses of amphibians. Dr Carrasco, who works in the Ministry of Science’s Conicet (National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations), said that their results suggested that the herbicide could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in the foetuses. Glyphosate is the herbicide used

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